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Engineering the Revolution : arms and Enlightenment in France, 1763-1815

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Engineering the Revolution : arms and Enlightenment in France, 1763-1815

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Artillery -- Technological innovations -- France -- History -- 18th century, Military engineers -- Political activity -- France -- History -- 18th century, Enlightenment -- France -- Influence, Technology and civilization -- Political aspects -- France, Artillerie -- Innovations -- France -- Histoire -- 18e siècle, Ingénieurs militaires -- Activité politique -- France -- Histoire -- 18e siècle, Siècle des Lumières -- France -- Influence, Technologie et civilisation -- Aspect politique -- France, Enlightenment -- Influence, Influence (Literary, artistic, etc.), Politics and government, Technology and civilization -- Political aspects, Wapenproductie, Franse Revolutie, Technische vernieuwing, Artillery -- France -- Technological innovations -- 18th century, Military engineers -- France -- 18th century, Enlightenment -- France, Technology and civilization -- France, Armes -- France -- 1789-1815, Ingénieurs militaires -- France -- 1789-1815, Technique et civilisation -- France -- Aspect politique, Mouvement des Lumières -- France -- Influence, France -- History -- Revolution, 1789-1799 -- Influence, France -- Politics and government -- 1789-1815, France -- History, Military -- 1789-1815, France -- Histoire -- 1789-1799 (Révolution) -- Influence, France -- Politique et gouvernement -- 1789-1815, France -- Histoire militaire -- 1789-1815, France, France -- 1789-1799 (Révolution) -- Influence, France -- Politique et gouvernement -- 1781-1815
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Princeton, N.J. : Princeton University Press
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Internet Archive
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English
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xvi, 476 pages : 25 cm

The French Revolution and Industrial Revolution together inaugurated the modern era. But recent historical "revisionists" have divorced eighteenth-century material conditions from concurrent political struggles. This book's anti-teleological approach repudiates technological determinism to document the forging of a new relationship between technology and politics in Revolutionary France. It does so through the history of a particular artifact - the gun. Expanding the "political" to include conflict over material objects, Ken Alder rethinks the nature of engineering rationality, the origins of mass production, and our interpretation of the French Revolution

Includes bibliographical references and index
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